Questão 7e07b78f-3c
Prova:PUC - RJ 2014
Disciplina:Inglês
Assunto:Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
This paragraph would fit in immediately after the paragraph that ends in.
This paragraph would fit in immediately after the paragraph that ends in.
The authors, in the original publication of this text, added the following paragraph to support one of their arguments. “Visit a factory in China’s Guangdong Province, for example, and you will see thousands of young people working day in and day out on routine, repetitive tasks, such as connecting two parts of a keyboard. Such jobs are rarely, if ever, seen anymore in the United States or the rest of the rich world. But they may not exist for long in China and the rest of the developing world either, for they involve exactly the type of tasks that are easy for robots to do. As intelligent machines become cheaper and more capable, they will increasingly replace human labor, especially in relatively structured environments such as factories and especially for the most routine and repetitive tasks. To put it another way, offshoring is often only a way station on the road to automation.”
The authors, in the original publication of this text, added the following paragraph to support one of their arguments. “Visit a factory in China’s Guangdong Province, for example, and you will see thousands of young people working day in and day out on routine, repetitive tasks, such as connecting two parts of a keyboard. Such jobs are rarely, if ever, seen anymore in the United States or the rest of the rich world. But they may not exist for long in China and the rest of the developing world either, for they involve exactly the type of tasks that are easy for robots to do. As intelligent machines become cheaper and more capable, they will increasingly replace human labor, especially in relatively structured environments such as factories and especially for the most routine and repetitive tasks. To put it another way, offshoring is often only a way station on the road to automation.”
A
“Fortune will instead favor a third group: those who can innovate and create new products, services, and business models.” (lines 20-22).
B
“And the effect of global competition spills over to the nontradable part of the economy, in both advanced and developing economies.” (lines 40-43).
C
“And this second story is surpassing the first, with some of its greatest effects destined to hit relatively unskilled workers in developing nations.” (lines 64-67).
D
“As work stops chasing cheap labor, moreover, it will gravitate toward wherever the final market is, since that will add value by shortening delivery times, reducing inventory costs, and the like.” (lines 81-84).
E
“In more and more domains, the most cost-effective source of “labor” is becoming intelligent and flexible machines as opposed to low-wage humans in other countries.” (lines 95-98).
